Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hour: Community Resilience & Sustainability/ T

[Maggie Dennis]

Hello, all.

Some of you had expressed an interest - while translation markup is still
to be added, the notes are now on Meta, here
.

Thanks to all who attended and asked questions or asked question in
advance. I have this fear of sitting in awkward silence. :D I'm very
grateful that didn't happen!

Best regards,
Maggie

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 12:49 PM Maggie Dennis 
wrote:

> Hello, all.
>
> As a reminder, I'm holding an office hour today. (You can read more about
> who I am and why you might care in the original email below.)
>
> We will be taking questions in Zoom chat, on Telegram, on IRC, and on the
> YouTube stream. I really hope somebody asks some. Otherwise, anyone who
> joins to watch the YouTube stream may be terribly bored. I should read a
> book out loud or something. :/ (We have three or four questions that were
> submitted in advance, I understand.) We will also make the recording
> available to watch after we're done.
>
> All Wikimedians in good standing (not Foundation or community banned) are
> welcome to attend or submit questions. I can't discuss specific Trust &
> Safety cases, but will do  my best to answer any other question that is
> voiced respectfully. I won't respond to questions or comments that I think
> are disrespectful to me, to my colleagues, or to anyone in our communities.
> I can talk civilly about our work even if you disagree with me or I with
> you, but I can't compromise on treating each other respectfully.
>
> The meeting is today, October 15 at 18:00 UTC — here's a timezone
> converter to work out when that is for you:
> https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1602784823
>
>
> How to participate:
>
>
>-
>
>Youtube: https://youtu.be/V_RekRyjDcI
>-
>
>Telegram link: https://t.me/joinchat/DOlGIB1FRLUWqW9iB3qfTQ
>-
>
>directions for participating in IRC:
>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#How_to_participate
>
>
> If you want to attend in person,
>
>-
>
>Zoom Meeting:
>
> https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/95547797148?pwd=T3BIS09CWm5tQ1ArclBMOGRDRXRPQT09
>
>
>
> For security reasons, you need to write to answ...@wikimedia.org for the
> code. :)
>
>
> You should also be aware that if you have your camera on or speak out loud
> in Zoom, you will be recorded! You can attend if you want, camera off, and
> type your questions if you're shy. :)
>
> Best,
>
> Maggie
>
>
> P.S. I am shy, but I survived last time, and I'll survive this! Just
> please don't come expecting a polished public spokesperson. That is very
> much not me.
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 3:26 PM Maggie Dennis 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello, all.
>>
>> I am Maggie Dennis, Vice President of Community Resilience &
>> Sustainability, working directly under the General Counsel of the Wikimedia
>> Foundation.[1] I've served in various roles at the Foundation over the past
>> 9 years, always in and about the Trust & Safety team. I'm also a volunteer
>> — Moonriddengirl — editing mostly on the English Wikipedia (though much
>> less than in the past).
>>
>> Back in June, we held the first of a series of quarterly office hours
>> which were intended to provide a space for folks to talk to me directly
>> about issues involving "community resilience and sustainability", which
>> includes the Trust & Safety team's activity as well as initiatives such as
>> the Universal Code of Conduct and the Human Rights role for which we’re
>> currently hiring. You can read the notes from the previous call here!
>> 
>> [2]
>>
>> As with last time, in order to meet the request of some to make these
>> meetings more personal, we're going to again host the meeting on Zoom,
>> taking questions from the Zoom chat, Telegram, and IRC, as well as
>> collecting them in advance over email.[3] The meeting will also be streamed
>> to YouTube, since we will only be able to host a limited number of people
>> in the Zoom itself, and this recording will be available to watch after
>> we're done.
>>
>> As with last time around, finding one hour that works for everyone is
>> going to be really difficult, though we will once again be taking detailed
>> (anonymized) notes from the call which we'll be posting onto Meta-Wiki.
>> I'll be fielding questions from Wikimedians in good standing (that is, not
>> Foundation or community banned), and will follow up with anything asked
>> during or prior to the meeting that I can't get to during the meeting in
>> writing after the call.
>>
>> The caveats from before remain in place, which I will repeat for
>> convenience:
>>
>>
>>-
>>
>>I can't and won't discuss specific Trust & Safety cases. Instead, I
>>can discuss Trust & Safety protocols and practices and approaches as well
>>as some of the mistakes we've made, some of the things I'm proud of, and
>>some of the things we're hoping to do.
>>-
>>
>>I will not 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric

[Megan Wacha]

The Wikimedia NYC Board of Directors is deeply concerned by and opposes the
constitutional changes proposed to the Bylaws of the Wikimedia Foundation,
that in several ways mark a sudden reversal of direction from the
community-focused, decentralized model promised by the 2030 Movement
Strategy process. The Wikimedia NYC Board has posted a statement of
opposition[1] and continues conversations internally. User:Pharos is also
facilitating two meetings of the Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network
this weekend - anyone with an affiliation is welcome to join, even if they
are not an official liaison or representative.

Megs
--
President, Wikimedia New York City

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/October_2020_-_Proposed_Bylaws_changes#Statement_of_Opposition_from_Wikimedia_NYC

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Wikimedia_Affiliates_Network



On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 2:25 PM Yuri Astrakhan 
wrote:

> I second that. It always amazed me that the community that has built the
> entire site does not have the majority in deciding the future of the site,
> and this seems to make it even less so.
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 2:03 PM Brion Vibber 
> wrote:
>
>> From what I've read in the thread above I agree with Yair, and would add
>> that this feels like a big power grab against the community.
>>
>> I believe that Wikimedia Foundation must reject these proposed bylaws
>> changes to preserve our open, democratic nature, and hold elections to fill
>> all seats.
>>
>> -- brion
>> former CTO
>> current software architect
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 5:12 PM Asaf Bartov 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello.  With my list-moderator hat, I am relaying two messages from Jimmy
>>> Wales, sent from an address he apparently hadn't used before,  that were
>>> unintentionally caught by the mailing list filters and could not be let
>>> through.  I paste them below.
>>>
>>>Asaf
>>>
>>> -- Forwarded message --
>>> From: Jimmy Wales 
>>> To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>>> Cc:
>>> Bcc:
>>> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 05:12:55 +0100
>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation
>>> Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric
>>> On 10/7/20 6:32 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
>>>
>>> The replacement of an explicit voting process with an unspecified
>>> process +
>>> schedule seems unnecessarily vague.
>>>
>>> I agree that the vagueness is not good.  To make sure everyone is aware:
>>> there has been no discussion and I'm unaware of anyone
>>> on the board who would be in favor of *removing* elections.  I think the
>>> current wording here is awkward and may have been designed
>>> to not be super prescriptive about how exactly we might move to a process
>>> with a community-driven and community-approved "rubric"
>>> combined with elections.  To remedy this defect seems quite easy - a
>>> future
>>> revision should explicitly include as much detail as is possible,
>>> and certainly should mandate elections.
>>>
>>> -- Forwarded message --
>>> From: Jimmy Wales 
>>> To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>>> Cc:
>>> Bcc:
>>> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 05:13:08 +0100
>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation
>>> Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric
>>> On 10/7/20 10:03 PM, Yair Rand wrote:
>>>
>>> (Another minor point: The change from the description of the appointed
>>> seats from "non-community-selected, non-chapter-selected" to
>>> "non-community-sourced" seems to imply that the Board is prohibited from
>>> filling these seats with any community members. Previously, there have
>>> been
>>> community members in these seats.)
>>>
>>> I think this is a very good "catch".  I'm sure that wasn't the intention
>>> of
>>> the rewording.  I didn't
>>> write it and of course I can't speak for anyone else.  I can say that
>>> there
>>> has been no discussion
>>> at the board level of anyone suggesting that we should not be able to
>>> select community members
>>> for these seats.
>>>
>>> Indeed, my personal view is that as we pursue board expansion, it is
>>> crucial that we try as hard as
>>> we can find to fill the appointed seats with as many deeply experienced
>>> community members (who
>>> have other relevant skills) as we possibly can.
>>>
>>> In terms of this proposal, I think that a minor change to clarify this
>>> minor point is a great idea!
>>>
>>> I think the ambiguity probably arose with the change from "selected" to
>>> "sourced" - a change that, itself,
>>> deserves great scrutiny.
>>>
>>> ===
>>>
>>> (end of Jimmy's two messages.  Future posts from Jimmy's new address
>>> should
>>> go through.)
>>>
>>>Asaf
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Клиника Викимедиа на русском языке / Wikimedia Clinic in Russian

[Asaf Bartov]

Дорогие викимедийцы,

Напоминаю, что первый в истории звонок клиники на русском пройдет *сегодня*,
во вторник, 20 октября в 16:00 по Гринвичу (19:00 по Москве). Ссылка на
звонок в Google Meet[1]. Если время вам подходит, присоединяйтесь!

С уважением
Асаф

[1] https://meet.google.com/tak-pgqx-nwq

Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)

Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities

Wikimedia Foundation 

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
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On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:48 PM Asaf Bartov  wrote:

> Дорогие викимедийцы,
>
> (этим письмом я приглашаю вас на видеозвонок из серии «Wikimedia Clinic»
> (Клиника Викимедиа) *на русском языке*. Пожалуйста, помогите распространить
> это приглашение всем, кому считаете нужным. Я, наверное, не состою во всех
> релевантных группах и не подписан на все рассылки.)
>
> В это сложное время пандемии и её будущих последствий, человеческий
> контакт с другими викимедийцами, даже по видеозвонку, может быть полезным,
> приятным и весёлым. Это также отличная возможность задать вопросы, которые
> у вас никак не доходили руки задать, или объяснить сложности, которые
> тяжело выразить письменно.
>
> Поэтому, команда по развитию сообществ (Community Development team) Фонда
> Викимедиа экспериментирует с открытыми видеозвонками (используя Google
> Meet), где каждый викимедиец может принять участие, задать вопросы и
> попросить совета по любому проекту или проблеме, с которыми они работают.
>
> Вы также можете просто рассказать над чем вы работаете и попросить
> отзывов, даже если у вас нет конкретных вопросов. Вы можете присоединиться,
> чтобы просто послушать, и возможно ваш опыт позволит ответить на чей-то
> вопрос.
>
> Мы называем эти звонки «Клиника Викимедиа», потому что они работают по
> принципу «приходите с тем, что у вас есть, и мы поможем, как сможем».
> Клиники проходят несколько раз в месяц в разное время, чтобы покрыть разные
> часовые пояса, и на разных языках, чтобы как можно больше людей получили
> возможность поучаствовать.
>
> Каждая такая сессия занимает до 90 минут, и мы гарантируем, что на каждой
> из них будет хотя бы два сотрудника Фонда Викимедиа. Они помогут вам
> получить ответы на ваши вопросы, или на самой клинике, или позже.
>
> После каждого звонка мы составляем краткое *резюме*, в котором описываются
> все темы и включаются ссылки на все инструменты и ресурсы, упомянутые во
> время звонка. Резюме доступно всем заинтересованным волонтерам и будет
> опубликовано на этом канале, а так же на meta[0]. Здесь[1] доступен
> недавний пример.
>
> Эти звонки *не* заменяет существующие каналы или звонки! Все они
> продолжают существовать. Во время клиники не будет никаких важных
> оповещений, поэтому не нужно боятся что-либо пропустить и чувствовать себя
> обязанным участвовать.
>
> Скорее, эти звонки - новая форма живого общения и поддержки, с более
> широким фокусом, чем некоторые существующие каналы (где ожидается общение
> на конкретную тему). Мы надеемся, что клиники будут более доступными для
> людей, не уверенных что их вопрос или проблема подходят для обсуждения в
> других существующих каналах.
>
> Опыт показал, что эти звонки, по большей части проходящие на английском
> или испанском языках, оказались полезными, мы с радостью приглашаем вас на
> звонок по-русски. Мы надеемся в будущем расширить эту практику также и на
> другие языки. Я не говорю по-русски, поэтому во время звонка будут
> присутствовать Пётр Пчелко и Амир Аарони.
>
> Первый в истории звонок клиники на русском пройдет во вторник, 20 октября
> в 16:00 по Гринвичу (19:00 по Москве). Ссылка на звонок в Google Meet[2].
> Если время вам подходит, присоединяйтесь!
>
> На звонке не будет заранее установленной повестки, поэтому никакой
> подготовки не требуется. Присоединяйтесь с любыми вопросами, связанными с
> Викимедией, или просто чтобы хорошо провести время.
>
> Обратная связь и вопросы приветствуются.
>
> С уважением
>
> Асаф
>
> При поддержке Петра и Амира
>
> [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Clinics
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Clinics/008
>
> [2] https://meet.google.com/tak-pgqx-nwq
>
> Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)
>
> Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
>
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
> sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
> https://donate.wikimedia.org
>
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